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Determinants of Teenage Birth Rates as an Unpooled Sample
Author(s) -
Tomal Annette
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1999.tb03283.x
Subject(s) - demography , poverty , population , birth rate , unemployment , poverty rate , medicine , fertility , sociology , economics , economic growth
Illinois teenage birth rates are estimated both as a pooled sample and also as an unpooled sample (under eighteen years old and eighteen to nineteen years old). The younger teens’are statistically significantly affected by the number of two‐parent families in the county. The older teens’birth rates have statistically significant coefficients for three additional predictors–county education and income levels and the percent of children living in poverty. Variables that do not have a statistically significant relationship with either group's birth rates are population density and the unemployment rate. The proportion of white population was a statistically significant determinant for the younger teens’birth rate.